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Short Film Practice

To practice our camera and editing skills before making our short film or trailer, we were given the task to work in groups and make our own short film. We were given a narrative and had to put our own ideas together as to what camera shots/angles we should use in order to make our short film look effective. The narrative of this short film was a student delivering something to another student.

This is an example of a long shot. This kind of shot gives us the full effect of a school setting, by showing the person walking through a corridor in a school uniform. The camera at this point was static meaning as the person was walking she was getting closer to the camera which worked effectively with the transition into the next camera shot as she walks round the corner.

This is an example of a point of view shot. This shot is taken from the point of view of the person about to enter the room, however the for the audience this kind of shot builds suspense since we are unsure as to who's point of view this is coming from.

This is an example of a medium over the should shot. We used this shot in our film as you can clearly work out the setting and what is going on in this frame without it having to be too zoomed out. We used an over the shoulder angle here instead of a normal medium camera shot as by doing this you can clear is the iconic features which tell the audience the person is in a class room.

Editing

Once we had finished filming we used, I used Adobe elements to edit the clips to make it into a short film. My editing included cutting down or cutting out unnecessary clips and creating transition between each clip in order to make the film flow better.

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The Great Gatsby film trailer

I found this theatrical trailer interesting as it manage to bring across to the audience the genre of the film and the themes throughout, this was mainly done through editing, for example jump cuts, this gave us short clips of main scenes/events in the film which effectively incises the audience into wanting the watch the film and piece all the clips together. I found the editing in the trailer very effective as it kept the audience focused and grabbed their attention as the audience had to stay focused due to the fast pace scenes. 

This trailer has given me ideas for when I begin to create my own film trailer as I have been able to see the effectiveness of editing, sound and camera shots within a trailer and how they grab the audiences attention.

Film trailers

Trailers are an important part of film making, providing the audience with short clips of the film acting as a teaser to draw in the audience, promoting the film and making them what to go and see it. There are three different types of trailers;

•  A teaser trailer, this is a shortened down version of a trailer shown in advance of the release date, which teases the audience by giving them only a short clip to interests them in the film. 
• The second type of trailer is a theatrical trailer, this is a longer trailer shown a few weeks before the release of the film.
• The last type of trailer is a  DVD trailer, this is mainly shown on TV and the internet in advance to the DVD release, promoting the audience into buying the film.

Short film research

Dear Foreigner 

The second short film I researched was dear foreigner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00nks13

This short film was completely different to the typical short films.It didn't follow Tordorov's Theorys like any other short film we have researched. Moreover this short film is unique in the fact, there is no use of a camera, instead a voice over is used effectively to tell the story creating imagery in the audiences head. Furthermore colours are used in this short film to represent the feeling/emotions of the voice over allowing us to symposium with her. Additionally, throughout, the voice-over relates back to the title of the film be speaking about the man as 'the foreigner'.

Short film research

Paper Hearts

As part of the short film research, I researched some of my own short films in order to find out the codes of conventions they follow,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00pdf9j

This short film followed Todorov's theory by having the equilibrium at the start of the film, which was the dysfunctional father son relationship, then the disequilibrium when the young boy finds out his father is sleeping on the streets, to the new equilibrium which becomes the typical father son caring relationship.

Although the film is short, it is able to create tension for the audience as we are constantly on edge to find out what is going to happen to this relationship. There is many close ups of the young boys face, to show his unhappy emotions, allowing the audience to connect with the character. At the end of the film there is slow digetic music allowing the audience to sympathise with the characters, this sympathy can also be portrayed  through the fact it is a father/son relationship which many people can relate to.